Mohammed Sami | Hostless

Mohammad Sami's Hostless, the artist’s first institutional exhibition in Germany, will be on view at the Fridericianum from October 3, 2026 through January 3, 2027. 

In his new body of work Hostless, Mohammed Sami focuses predominantly on internal spaces. The paintings become a site for mnemonic processes, mental operations in which abstraction falters and something unsettling begins to seep through. Rooms become spectral containers, holding the residue of events that agreed to stay unnamed despite of the availability of the crime evidence. These interiors are literal in their unease yet evasive in meaning, trembling with a physicality that painting, as a practice, refuses to fully define or contain. Objects behave as floating signifiers, denoting an absent violence or a memory made consumable only through distance. The formal language in his new paintings allow the ‘horror’ to become an optional element for viewers, not performed, but quietly endured, revealed through the stubborn materiality of what remains.

The exhibition was made possible with the generous support of AMA Venezia.

To learn more about the exhibition, please visit the Fridericianum website.